With the 2014 world championship at the door, for all football fans there is a new game to try all summer and next year: FC Manager, a managerial football game . FC Manager is a free to play game where you become a manager of a Serie A club, where you have to recruit players, find them around the world, buy them and then train them, put them on the pitch and play league games and cups.
The game is online against other real players and becomes a kind of fantasy football with components of sports strategy.
FC Manager is focused on European teams, you choose the country where you want to train and start the championship in the chosen team.
At first you take a team with randomly selected players, then you can work on discovering new talents to improve in the weak points.
The replacement of the weaker players becomes a priority to get promotion in the higher series.
Once the team is put together, it's time to train and choose the game tactic .
You can build a team around the best player or bet on defense and team play.
The possibilities are endless and in addition to deciding the general tactic, you can also set the individual tactic for each player so that each team member can really play his role to full potential.
About six league games are played every day, so you need to set your tactics the day before major games.
To keep things interesting, FC Manager also has the cups, a money and game rewards system, to earn more money.
Money is, of course, the key to success and just like in real leagues, money will always be needed to have a better team, to attract the best players, and to pay salaries every month.
The games can be viewed live with a 2D perspective from the other or in 3D as if viewed on television.
Watching the game you can study the movement of the players to understand how you can improve from a tactical point of view.
Players can definitely level up and gain experience after each match to increase the skill points they spend on improving performance.
It is also possible to train these players to specialize and improve their skills.
This managerial game is truly complete, among the best of its kind, to be played for hours on end, with player rankings and a very competitive reward system.
FC Manager is all in English, so you need to know a minimum of football terms in order not to get lost in the options and in the game which, however, is of pure strategy and tactics.
FC Manager can be downloaded for free from the Softonic website (the game officially no longer exists).
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If you don't like FC Manager, in another article the general list of the best free and online managerial football games
